Snake Meat Soup (Hong Kong)
If you will be visiting Hong Kong and you wish to try a strange and one of a kind meal, give snake meat soup a try! The snake meat has a texture much like chicken and it is usually cooked with fragrant...
View ArticleSpanish Fly (Spain)
The Spanish Fly is not a fly, it is a beetle. This beetle is crushed up and is then eaten. The cantharidin that it contains is supposed to work as a powerful aphrodisiac. However, it can be lethal....
View ArticleCheeseburger in a Can
Believe it or not, there is such thing as canned cheeseburgers. An innovative Outdoor and adventure company called “Trek ‘N Eat,” who manufacture high-quality, freeze-dried specialty foods, have...
View ArticleBird’s Nest Soup (Asia)
Bird’s nest soup is another expensive Asian delicacy. It is made from edible nests from a species of birds known as ‘swifts’ that live in caves and make their nests from saliva. The high price tag is...
View ArticleCricket Pasta
Nutribug.com, a new start-up company from the UK, has been busy working away on a new edible insect pasta range. Their new Rice Pasta a.k.a. Pro Pasta will be the first first gluten free rice pasta to...
View ArticleSnake Wine with Scorpion
Snake Wine is a rice based alcohol which is infused with a real snake, ginseng roots and herbal seed pods. Sometimes lizards, frogs and scorpions are added for extra potency similar to the bottle...
View ArticleMaple Bacon Deluxe Smoked Coffee
The title is probably an instant giveaway that this bizarre coffee is the creation of a Canadian company. If you like coffee, bacon and maple syrup then you are probably going to love this product....
View ArticleSourtoe Cocktail (Yukon, Canada)
Produced in 1973, the sour toe cocktail has become a Dawson City tradition, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. An actual human toe that has been dehydrated and salted will be used to garnish a drink...
View ArticleFlipper Pies (Canada)
Made with an unusual ingredient – harp seal flippers, flipper pies are a Newfoundland tradition that come with a lot of controversy and history. The reason for the controversy is that the flippers used...
View ArticleFried Brain Sandwiches (USA)
This fascinating sandwich is found in some areas in the US, particularly in the Ohio River Valley, made from sliced pig or calves brain, which is heavily battered and then deep-fried. Immigrants from...
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